Christchurch Health & Development Study

The Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) has been in existence for 40 years. During this time we have followed the health, education and life progress of a group of 1,265 children born in the Christchurch (New Zealand) urban region during mid-1977.

This cohort has now been studied from infancy into childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The data gathered over the course of the study now comprises some 50 million characters of information, with which the study has published over 480 scientific papers, reports, books and book chapters describing the 40-year life history of the CHDS cohort.

News

Spring 2017

John speaks to The Star about the impacts of the earthquakes, the history of the study, and a few of the many things we’ve learned from our participants: read all about it on page 16 of The Star 7 September 2017

Winter 2017

Bhuban Dhakal joins the team as an Assistant Research Fellow (Biostatistics/Data Management) - welcome aboard!